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I've perpetrated one which I felt crummy about. To set the background, I was a sophomore at college in 1986, and the campus is close to some bad neighborhoods. I had had a very sca…

Well, regular intelligence isn't but so useful in business either. There are so many factors in business success, intelligence is just one, and usually not a very big one.

Record number of investors means dumb money, just like 2000. If you don't know who the greater fool is...it's you

Maybe what we need is a return to the very beginning, namely human curated web catalogs, aka Yahoo

Garageband.com Silicon Investor Groovetech And let's not forget how exciting it was to explore around in the original Yahoo! Although the web doesn't seem to be thing we all dreame…

Commentator appears to have a layman's understanding of quantum mechanics.

Loved this book when I was college age

I've felt that way for years. OO perhaps makes sense for certain things, mainly things that someone else writes and you use as a library. Using OO more widely leads to very inflexi…

Haha wrong

Yes! How much time have I wasted chasing some stupid error that "just worked" in perl which C or Java would have blocked at the get go. Just say NO to languages that try to guess w…

Changed my mind on OO after seeing how difficult it is for ordinary humans to design objects that can withstand the spec changes that are inevitable in any real project. Bad proced…

I find the opposite - many websites still don't seem to test properly on chrome.

Well, it was fun while it lasted.

I signed up but I see they're using credit card payment...can this work?

E&M is far from "simple". It contains special relativity, for starters. Also it is incompatible with thermodynamics: solving this problem is why Planck invented quantum mechanics. …

So, the driving force behind facebook is the newsfeed, which enables people to see everyone's updates without going one by one to each page. It's going to be hard to replicate this…

It's funny how nonphysicists (this author) and non-productive physicists (Hossenfelder) beat this drum most loudly. How about we do this: let the people who are obviously smartest …

The market already doesn't allocate capital. Companies almost never issue new shares, indeed they buy them back. Given that dividends are also trifling, the market is mainly a larg…

You are right that it was a special and exciting feeling learning these things when these machines were brand new. When my friend's family bought a TRS-80 in 1978, it was like some…

Guess what, we don't need an internet of things. It's not going to happen and you can tell that because it's been hyped for a decade now and has not produced any product that anyon…

apps suck

Every major advance in physics has arrived with a new paradigm of mathematics, usually more than one new paradigm. Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but I doubt quantum gra…

Very simple question that the article completely failed to address: does the process output more energy in the form of gasoline than it takes in? I am quite certain that the answer…

2 solutions: a) stop doing experiments that just look for correlation without any attempt to get at mechanism. Of course sometimes you can't avoid this and then 2) use lower p valu…

Totally wrong from the get go. Cells do not use thermal energy to "ratchet" order out of chaos. That would violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Cells create order by using energy…